Considering everything, if I do grab this I am considering not giving anything in the form of a Humble Tip. Including a game with a WINE wrapper is just something I never expected from them. And I definitely would not give a cent to the developers of Limbo...

That said, I still want to pick it up so that I will finally get myself a copy of Amnesia and also grab Physconauts, which I have heard great things about. I will see how things go though.

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I was rather meh when I heard this was coming, but now it's... woah!

They ported Psyhconauts? Bloody Hell! :eek:

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You do not need to explain the allure to me Troy - I grew up playing Apogee games. Chips Challenge too, but anyway... ;)

My uncle had a disk full of Apogee game demos given to him after he gave us a fridge back in the day, so it is a kind of family interest in a way (though he is mostly a Civilization fanatic). Not quite the same as what was brought up here, but he taught us a few things about how to play Pagantizu, for instance.

I was more personally interested in the side scrollers like the original Duke Nukem games though. I may mostly be a FPS player but I still have time for a good side-scroller.

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I definitly see the Secret Agent, Commander Keen, and other Appogee influences there.

For what it's worth, I do know and have fond memories of Chips Challenge Brandon. ;)

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Question...

Super Office Stress: $3.0 $99.99

Surely you jest? :confused:

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I got introduced to point and click by Yatzhee's old adventure games (Rob Blanc and Arthur Yahtzee) and I played those mostly for the humour, which is a good compliment in such titles. That said, I have grown a little fond of point and click in general, even if I have never been all that good at finding the puzzles (though I am getting better!).

The thing you got to consider is that ten years ago many genres were said to be "commercially unviable", but slowly but surely the Indie revolution has proved them wrong, with platformers being the most prominent example (which is why we have some many!). Out of all of them though, it was the point and click adventure that was cast away from the commercial market the fastest, and was most considered something which could only be supplied by the hobbyist.

Double Fine and Moebius and The Journey down to grab something from another thread are just like Braid and Cave Story - they are trying to prove that such titles can still be viable. That is why they generate all the money and the like - the idea of restoring the genre seems worth saving to many people.

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Indeed, you are right. Strange...

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They should put this up on Desura, it might get it a bit more Linux attention.

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Sounds like an interesting read. ;)

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My personal preference is for games to start with a configuration launcher, so they do not have to make any assumptions at all.

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